Politics: The Year of the Cop-Out

The year of the student political worker
will have to be remembered as the year of the student copout: though
some young people are effectively involved as the election campaigns
come down to the now-or-next-time stage, those performing in the fall
are a small fraction of the many who made promises in the spring.

Almost all the evidence on the political attitudes of students denies
the notion that they are more radical or more active than the rest of
the population. In fact, they vote in even smaller percentages than the
sometimes apathetic...